The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 19 Page 37

“And then, Witch of the East? Shall I not offer them when the husks are stripped?”

“I see no further than you dream, O Amochol!”

He stretched out his arm toward her, menacingly:

“Yet they shall both be strangled here upon this stone!” he said. “Look, Witch! Can you not see them lying there together? I have dreamed it.”

She silently pointed at the two dead dogs.

“Look again!” he cried in a loud voice. “What do you see?”

She made no reply.

“Answer!” he said sharply.

“I have looked. And I see only the eternal wampum lying at my feet —